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Brush For
Monday HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 19, 1938.
Beauty Hair IS Coming
SING a brusli for beauty!
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Our grandmothers would have been horried at the very thought.
women Yel to-day, when better looking and younger looking than ever they were, good brush- work counts for such a lot. Hair the that is regularly brushed · Is smartest and healthiest, and the Your sune applies to complexions. skin cannot be really clean nor your make-up well-groomed without the ald of at least two brushes.
Most of us nowadays use a com- plexion brush to remove surplus powder and Ikly up the face gener- ally. After powder has been pressed on to the skin with a inrge soft pult, the brush spreads it evenly and leaves a soft mott surface with no hint of patches and caking. It pre- vents that "scrubbed on" took thai badly made-up faces have,
But the other complexion brush does even more valuable work, Skin specialists tell us that many men have excellent healthy skins because of the stimulating mansuge effect of their shaving brushes. The action of the bristles stirs up the sluggish glands and nerves beneath the skin; the soap and warm water whirled round in the brush cleans the face Hence there ns. nothing else can.
Wilo are fewer inch than women rench middle-age with double chins i and sagging face contours. Regular Facial Treatment
As a result of this, nowadny benu- ty specialists are advocating regular facial treatments with # sooped brush. It is excellent for greasy and rather heavy skins, if you use a special skin brush ond à really gook superfatted
crenni soap.
Down
Countess Haugwitz- Re- rentlow favours this style -wings taken off the site of the face and an out- turned roll curt at the back.
"SALT SERVICE”
Once a week is enough for the aver- CALT will elear 4. fire required for
age complexion; twice if your skin
is very oily.
Use tepid water only and work up
a very mild Inther, Brush with n
Streetops sudde
and blues ir sprinkled on haything that Burning.
Copper articles should be cleaned This will
circular movement for about a with lemon juice and salt. minute, then wash off very thorough-remove any verdigris.
ly with warm water. Never allow
the soap to dry on your skin, and To remove stains from baths and complete the stimulation by brush. Wash-basins, rub with dry salt be. Finish with the brush dipped in cold fore cleaning in the ordinary way. water to close the pores.
Choked sink pipes can be cleared
Face brushing is best done at night by pouring bolling salt water down.
after the skin has been cleansed with
When soup has been over-salted,
a good quality cold cream. Wipe add a peeled and halved potato. This
off the excess and then begin work will absorb the surplus sult. with soap and brush. Pay particu-
lar attention to the crevices where
has a
at the Back
THESE hair styles have a special significance at a time when hairdressers are being asked whether the Edwardian style is a permanency. Mayfair experts now believe that even the return of the 'picture' dress; will not see the Edwardian coiffure universally adopted.
dust and blackhends gather nt the chin and sides of the nose, but work same careful day-time make-up, and generally in an outward, semi-rotary it will repay you well with smooth motion. Rinse in clear water
and and youthful beauty. If IL
A special then dry, by patting. never coarse sallow look, let it have rubbing.
brush cleansing of its own about
Hair will not stay up at the back, except on the few it really favours, once a week, with Anal applica Whatever you do, don't forget your tion of a mild astringent instead of hose with slender throats and well-shaped heads. It involves too much time in the busy woman's day and takes a hair-dresser ten to fifteen ex- neck. Give it the samo brush cold water. treatment, the
tra minutes to comb out and arrange after setting. same cleansing, the
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CHRISTMAS Gifts
HERE ARE A FEW ITEMS FROM OUR COMPREHENSIVE
RANGE OF MOST APPROPRIATE GIFTS
PERFUMERY
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THE FAMOUS
MAKERS
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GIRDLES, BELTS, HANDKERCHIEFS, CLOVES, SCARVES, STOCKINGS, HATS, SHOES UNDERWEAR,
ETC., ETC.
Side hair and the hair which tops the brow, however, will continue to take up. There will be more soft, fan-ilke forehead fringes, but not heavy ones,
Hale falling softly in the nape of the neck marks a complete reversal of the page-boy era, which has lasted because it stayed so tidily sleck.
Soft broken-up curls, even ring- lets, will emphasise many feminine
beads before the Now Year.
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The hias a've j cut (abore) which softens
short back hair contours ---- the side hair taken up snd uff, face. Coiffure by Emile, who holds the royal war- rant for Queen Elizabeth's ,hair-dressing.
On the left is a hair- down-th&back style, which will be a future vogue. The ide hair is taken up and twined over the head. Back hair curled in Victorian ringlets, with short curls. on brow-top.
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CHRISTMAS gifts this year. combine economy and
novelty with the practical.
BATH CONFETTI, colourful as it sounds. Resembles tinted cachous in
a container with cork base and lid, Produces for bathroom convenience.
n foam and colours the bath exotic-
lly.
Caloured BATH-COMPACT FLOWERS which dissolve into foam ou contact with water, and are ur- ranged like a posy in a circular silver box.
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"NIGHTIE" CASES take the shape of supercilious satin dogs, with silk- fringed cars and feet.
Serving the same purpose, are dolls daintily clothed in checked tal- feta crinolines, and poke bonnets, an anazed inquiring expression in their blue eyes.
-HOT-WATER-BOTTLE COVERS have achieved a new importance in Paris, where wool Polar bear cub chicken are among the and Buffy lafest designs.
DOLLS seem to have followed fa- shion. The Victorian doll. thirty inches in height, complete with quaint silk dress, many petticoats and parasol, may take the honours Elizabeth doll has a fresh party frock
while the In popularity;
Princess
in palest pink.
CHANGING STYLE
CHANGE over a hair-style
after a shampoo rather between shampoos, to avold bruised sensation scalp.
than
Sleeping in ploned-up hair will not harm the bair, but Insert pins pointed slightly outward to avoid pricking scalp.
ways grows
angle.
When encouraging natural wave, The ringlets verston has been study your parting. Hair nearly al-
at an oblique adopted by the Duchess of Kent, Start the wave at an angle at which though she is one of the few who hair starts out from parting. If it can look charming with an Edwar-falls slightly forward, the first wave dian coiffure and often adopts it.
should be coaxed to come towards brow, then taken back,
It hair falls back from parting, take first wave back, then bring for The tidiest way to dispose of long ward on to brow. Similarly with
short curls on top of hend
| side-pieces which have now gone
If hair refuses to respond to pin- upward is to roll and twine them control use combs, but place them on top of the head.
Back hair in Victorian type two- inch long ringlets-centre front hair This is quite simple in short.curls. to comb and arrange once "set."
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before curling ends of hair over, 30 that they are not too obvious.
When taking up the hair merely for an evening or special occasion, wired velvet bows use combs to which are attached in black, or in ribben to match your gown.
Nail Biting In Children
How To Cure It:
TAIL biting is an unpleasant habit which in time becomes a meance
to health.
Fingers, are frequently dirty; and pleces of nails, if swallowed, arg Hlable to irritate the stomach' and bowels. Persistent biling may lead to breaks in the skin, with the entry of germs and a septle finger.
Nail-biters are frequently shunned by other churren. A quite usual outcome of this is an inferiorily complex with marked nervous. ness, mainly twitchings, dreams and nightmares,
Do not delay corrective measures. Keep the nolls short and give the child a manicure set with directions on using It. Stimulate a wish to have well-kept nails Jike lis parents.
Improve the general health by increased outdoor exercise and ade- quate nourishing food and encourage congenial' companioris who are not nail biter.
Children should wear washable gloves in bed, whlie during the day! their nails should be painted with something unpleasant, yet harmless, such as aloes.
Cures are often hastened by having a dentist fit metal caps to the back teeth to prevent the front ones closing tightly. These should not be worn longer than necessary, otherwlie the teeth will decny,
Occasionally, it may be advisable to consult a psych-therapist with | a view to hypnotie treatment.
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